Two persons were murdered over the weekend as a crime wave washed across the city spreading west to Roaring Creek. First we turn to Belize City, where the life of Neville Thomas Jr. was cut short early on Friday evening. He died instantly from the three shots fired by a lone gunman. Thomas, who is […]
The weekend’s second murder took place fifty miles away in Roaring Creek, also on Friday night. Twenty-nine year old Keith Sambula is believed to have been killed and dumped near the Belize River that runs through the village. The Punta Gorda resident was staying at a Roaring Creek house where party was in full swing […]
And in a shooting spree in the city, two persons are recovering from bullet wounds after they were injured while playing basketball at the newly upgraded Euphrates Basketball Court. Sometime around eight Sunday morning, several persons including twenty-seven year old Gavin Zuniga and twenty-four year old Bernard Felix were on the court when at least […]
Less than twenty-four hours after the Euphrates shooting, about a block away on Glenn Street, Isaiah Milton, a fourteen year old student from Salvation Army Primary School, was shot. Sometime around five this morning, Milton and two of his brothers were at their home when several knocks were heard at the door. Out of caution, […]
A few minutes ago, a shooting was reported near the Port Loyola Preschool in Belize City. At least one person was injured in the shooting that occurred at the corner of Fabers road and Central American Boulevard. The victim has been transported to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital. We can confirm that three persons were […]
A Belize City youth was shot this afternoon. The victim, a minor, was in his own neighborhood when he was gunned down just before two o’clock. Seventeen year old Luis Kerr was sitting on the sidewalk directly across from his home on Curassow Street when his assailant shot him with one bullet to the back […]
There is more disturbing information coming from the family of twenty-three year old Christopher Galvez, who was murdered on the night of December twenty-second, 2009. It has been a messy investigation and a number of cover ups have been alleged. Earlier this week News Five spoke to a witness who has identified the shooter in […]
There is a major break in a murder case in the west that dates back to 2008. The main suspect eluded police for over a year, but tonight twenty-four year old Belmopan laborer Efrain “Payin” Santiago, suspected of being behind the murder of Santa Cruz resident, thirty-four year old Felix Enriquez Martinez, is safely behind […]
Twenty-three year old Christopher Galvez was murdered on the night of December twenty-second 2009. No one has been charged, but there have been a number of allegations on shoddy police work. Since the murder, more than a month ago, Yolanda Schakron has vowed that she would try to find out who murdered her nephew. She […]
A chilling home invasion in the Ladyville area was reported last Friday night. And soon enough police recovered the stolen items and had in their custody, three accused men. No one was injured, but the victims were traumatized by the incident. News Five’s Jose Sanchez has a detailed report of the crime. Jose Sanchez, Reporting […]
We reported last Friday on the murder of eighty-two year old William Neal, a resident of Corner Central American Boulevard and Vernon Street in Belize City. Neal was found dead late Friday afternoon and there were no signs of forced entry into his home nor is it known when he was actually murdered. Witnesses have […]
There might well be a fourth murder for this year on the hands of the Police Department. That’s because shortly before five p.m. on Friday, the headless and partially decomposed body of a man was discovered on a feeder road between miles fifty and fifty-one off the Hummingbird Highway. The skull was found suspended by […]
Two persons from Orange Walk Town are dead tonight. And it is not the usual type of homicide but a shocking case of murder and suicide. The horrifying ordeal took place on Thursday at a popular hangout spot on Princess Diana Street. It was about four-thirty in the evening when an intoxicated man entered Las […]
At about four this afternoon, an elderly Belize City man was brutally stabbed at his home on Central American Boulevard. The man lived alone and there are no witnesses to give evidence on what transpired behind the wooden walls. Because there are no signs of forced entry into his home, police are not ruling out […]
The murder of twenty-seven year old Salvador Jose Martinez, which occurred on Monday evening during football games at the M.C.C. Grounds, remains a mystery. So far there has not been any arrest in the murder, even though there were many witnesses who saw when Martinez was stabbed as he attempted to stop a fight during […]
There is another scandal brewing, this time in the Police Department, and it surrounds the mysterious release of thirty-two year old Keon Williams aka “Gambis”. Gambis was accused of sexually assaulting a fourteen year old boy in November 2009 and was charged for Committing an Unnatural Crime last Tuesday. Gambis was denied bail and was […]
On Monday night a sporting match between Ladyville Technical and Nazarene High schools ended fatally for a spectator. Twenty-seven year old Salvador Martinez intervened to stop a fight when he was stabbed on the chest. There are many lingering questions on his death, particularly the issue of poor security at sport facilities. According to school […]
The calm at the beginning of this year was holding… at least for the first eighteen days. But on Monday evening the first murder took place around six o’clock during a high school football game. It was not a student that fell victim nor does his murder appear to have gang influence. In fact, it […]
There’s another murder to report tonight. The life of a Belizean was taken mid afternoon in neighboring Guatemala. News Five has learnt that twenty-eight year old Wendy Navarette was shot to death today in Guatemala City as she headed to pick up one of her children from school. Details are trickling in and when News […]
The long arms of the law caught up with a U.S. fugitive hiding in Belize. Acting on a tip, police investigations led them to a boat at the Cucumber Beach Marina on the Western Highway. Last Friday the cops searched the boat “Latitude Adjustment”, owned by US National William Russell Jewett Junior and found not […]
It’s the first reported shooting for the year…the victim is twenty-four year old Kyle Edwards of a Reggae Street address in Belize City. Around six-thirty on Thursday night, while Edwards was riding on West Canal, a lone gunman on bicycle, fired several shots at him. Edwards was injured to the arm, shoulder and head and […]
Approximately three hours later, another Southside resident, twenty-year old Giovanni Abraham was also admitted at the K.H.M.H. suffering from a stab wound to the abdomen. Abraham was injured in an altercation with eighteen year old Mark Usher at the corner of Dykes and Fabers Roads. ASP Jones says that Usher has since been detained. Asst. […]
Up north, Corozal police have teamed up with their Mexican counterparts to investigate a burglary at a store at one of the shopping plazas in the Corozal Free Zone. And while the incident occurred over the Christmas holidays, it is only now being reported and both Free Zone and police authorities are no closer to […]
There were two robbery attempts today. The first reportedly occurred before nine this morning on busy Albert Street and was aimed at a couple of German tourists. It is reported that two youths on bicycles held up the tourists at gunpoint but did not steal anything. The second attempt occurred around two this afternoon at […]
The year 2009 was a particularly violent twelve months. While that is the public’s perception, the Police Department says not so. Their statistics, released on Wednesday, show that crime decreased during last year, especially in the last quarter. It may be hard to believe considering that there were a staggering seven thousand plus crimes reported […]
